The Public School System Girls Middle School Basketball league will kick off on Sept. 18 at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.<\/p>\n
The league is open to both private and public schools and games will be played from 4pm to 6:30pm every Wednesday. Eight matches will be held on each playing day with PSS utilizing the north and south courts at the gym. <\/p>\n
Participating schools include Chacha Oceanview Middle School, Hopwood Middle School 1 and 2, Mount Carmel School, Agape School, Francisco M. Sablan Middle School, Tanapag Middle School, Dandan Middle School, Grace Christian Academy, and Saipan International School. <\/p>\n
The first pair of matches next Wednesday at 4:30pm will have Chacha battling Agape and GCA facing Tanapag. For the second set of games at 5pm, Hopwood 1 will take on MCS, while Hopwood 2 will duel Dandan. In the next two matches at 5:30pm, it will be Mt. Carmel against FMS and Dandan versus SIS. For the last two matches at 6pm, Hopwood 1 will meet Chacha and Tanapag will fight Hopwood 2. <\/p>\n
The league will have a single-round robin format in the regular season, which will last until Oct. 16 and results in the preliminaries will be used for seeding.<\/p>\n
Each game will be played in two 10-minute halves, running time, and overtime will be three minutes. The playoff round that will take place on Oct. 18 will be a single-elimination affair.<\/p>\n
Players must submit parental release forms beforehand, maintain passing grades in the most recent grading period, submit a sports physical, and must not be over 15 years of age within the school year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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